[263] This tale is given by MM. Grimm, from the Brixener Volksbuch. 1782. [264] Related by Hammelmann in the Oldenburg Chronicle, by Prætorius, Bräuner, and others. [265] _Frühmorgens eh die Sonn aufgeht Schon alles vor dem Berge steht._ [266] This tale was orally related to MM. Grimm in Saxony. They do not mention the narrator's rank in life. [267] _Dat is gaut dat de büerkem dat nich weit Dat de sunne üm twölwe up geit._ [268] Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 434. Both legends are in the Low-Saxon dialect. [269] The terms used in the original are _Wichtelmänner_, _Wichtelmännerchen_, and _Wichtel_. [270] The Saxon ó seems to answer to the Anglo-Saxon [Old English: Ig], Irish _Inis_: see below, _Ireland_. [271] Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 428. The latter story is in the Low-Saxon dialect. [272] In Scandinavia the Dwarfs used to borrow beer, even a barrel at a time, which one of them would carry off on his shoulders, Thiele i. 121. In the Highlands of Scotland, a firlot of meal. In all cases they paid honestly. On one occasion, a dwarf came to a lady named Fru (_Mrs._) Mettè of Overgaard, in Jutland, and asked her to lend her silk gown to Fru Mettè of Undergaard, for her wedding. She gave it, but as it was not returned as soon as she expected, she went to the hill and demanded it aloud. The hill-man brought it out to her all spotted with wax, and told her that if she had not been so impatient, every spot on it would have been a diamond. Thiele iii. 48. The Vends of Lüneburg, we are told, called the underground folk Görzoni (from _gora_, hill), and the hills are still shown in which they dwelt. They used to borrow bread from people; they intimated their desire invisibly, and people used to lay it for them outside of the door. In the evening they returned it, knocking at the window, and leaving an additional cake to express their thankfulness. Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 423. [273] See above, p. 225. [274] Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 437. [275] Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 453. [276] See Grimm, _ut sup._, p. 447 _seq._ [277] Deutsche Sagen, from Prætorius., Agricola, and others. [278] Grimm, Deut. Mythol., pp. 451, 881. [279] Kohl, Die Marschen und Inseln der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein. [280] These terms all signify _Underground folk_. [281] See above, p. 116. [282] The Puk is also called Niss-Puk, Huis-Puk, Niske, Niske-Puk, Nise-Bok, Niss-Kuk--all compounds or corruptions of Nisse and Puk. He is also named from his racketing and noise Pulter-Claas, _i. e._ Nick Knocker, (the German Poltergeist,) Claas being the abbreviation of Nicolaus, Niclas; see above, p. 139, for this same origin of Nisse. THE WILD-WOMEN. Ein Mägdlein kam im Abendglanz, Wie ich's noch nie gefunden. SCHREIBER. A maiden came in Evening's glow, Such as I ne'er have met.